West Lafayette, Indiana. Purdue University Press. 2021. 456 pages.
SOME LIVES ARE iconic; such is the case with Czechoslovakian intellect Agneša Kalinová (1924–2014), whose personal n…
Peter Sherwood
New York. Contra Mundum Press. 2020. 147 pages. IT’S RAINING IN MOSCOW is the first collection of stories in English by Zsuzsa Selyem, a well-known Transylvanian Hungarian au…
London. Jantar. 2019. 219 pages. IN BELLEVUE, Ivana Dobrakovová, winner of the European Prize for Literature, pulls no punches for her readers or her protagonist, nineteen-ye…
London. Jantar. 2017. 129 pages. I wanted to like Balla’s In the Name of the Father, I really did. I was intrigued by the promise of a Slovak Kafka; I wanted to experience the Eastern Europea…
Bloomington, Indiana. Slavica / Three String Books. 2017. 185 pages. The translators of Into the Spotlight have set out to expand the body of contemporary Slovak fiction available in English,…- Peter Sherwood, tr. London. Stork Press. 2012. ISBN 9780957132665 In the first paragraph of this “were-tale for six actors, five voices, two players,” narrator Jerne Voltampere proffers fair warning:…
